Washboiler clothes-drainer.



M. A. LONG.

WASHBOILER CLOTHES DRMNER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 3, 1912.

1,139,782. Patented May 18, 1915.

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inarrn MARY A. LONG, OF FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA.

WASHBOILER OLOTHES-DRAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 18, 1915.

Application filed September 3, 1912. Serial No. 718,311.

vice to receive the garments and support them in the boiler to enablethe garments to be bodily removed and disposed in the rinsing water orotherwise disposed of without the necessity for separately handling thegarments.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a device of thischaracter wherein means are provided for elevating the holder whenremoving it from the receptacle and likewise adapted to lower the holderinto the receptacle.

WVith these and other objects in view the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described andthen specifically pointed out in the claim, and in the drawingsillustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention: Figure 1 is aside elevation of the improved device supported upon a wash boiler, theboiler being in longitudinal section. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

The improved device may be applied without material structural change towashboilers or like receptacles of various forms and sizes, and it isnot desired to limit the invention to any specific form or constructionof boiler, but for the purpose of illustration the boiler or receptacleis represented conventionally at 10.

The improved device comprises a holder for the garments and ispreferably formed of a relatively heavy wire frame 11 with the sides,ends and bottom formed of relatively large mesh wire netting 12, whichwill support the garments but at the same time permit the freecirculation of the water therethrough. The holder is provided withsuitable handles 13 whereby the holder may be transported. Connected tothe bottom of the frame 11 at its ends are guide pulleys 14.

Fitting over one end of the boiler 10 is a winding drum 15 having acrank 16 and holding forks 17, the latter adapted to en gage over theedge of the receptacle and thus detachably support the winding drum inposition.

Connected at one end to the drum 15 is a winding cable or flexible wire18 which leads downwardly inside of the receptacle 10, thence over thepulleys 14 and terminates in va hook 19 adapted to be engaged over i theopposite end of the receptacle 10. By

this means, the holder 11-12 is supported by the cable 18. The drum 15is provided with a ratchet 20, while a holding pawl 21 is connected tothe forked frame 17 to engage in the ratchet and thus hold the cable atany desired position. By this simple arrangement, the holder 1112 issupported within the receptacle 10 at any desired point of elevation andmay be lowered to its fullest extent within the receptacle, and, thenwhen the receptacle is to be removed, this can readily be done by simplyrotating the crank 16 and causing the cable 18 to elevate the holderfree from the water in the receptacle.

When the garments are to be immersed in the water in the receptacle 10,the crank 16 is rotated to stretch the cable 18 tightly across the upperend of the receptacle. The holder 1112 is then deposited in positionupon the cable with the pulleys 14 in position thereon and lowered intothe receptacle by releasing the pawl 20 and employing the crank 16 as abrake to control the speed of the downwardly moving holder. The garmentsare then deposited in the holder and the cover placed on the receptacle.

After the boiling operation, the holder together with its contents iselevated by ac tuating the crank and permitting the surplus water todrain from the garments. The holder can then be bodily removed withoutfatigue to the operator and without the necessity for manually handlingthe holder. After the draining is completed the holder can be readilyremoved and the contents deposited in the rinsing water or otherwisedisposed of and without the necessity for in dividually handling thegarments.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be inexpensivelymanufacfactured and of any suitable material but will preferably be madeof steel wire galvanized or otherwise coated or treated to preventcorrosion, or the holder may be constructed of non-corrodible wire.

What I claim is I The combination with a wash boiler and 5 a foraminousholder adapted to be removably positioned within the boiler, of meansdetachably connected with the boiler and detachably engaging the holderfor lowering the holder into or lifting it out of" the boiler, saidmeans including a flexible element passing beneath theholder andcarrying a hook member for securing the adjacent end of said element tothe upper edge of the boiler at one end; thereof, and a Winding de-'vice connected with the said element at its opposite extremity, saidwinding device inv eludinga pair of bracket plates having their lowerterminals bifurcated to form arms arranged to embrace the upper edge theaxle,

of the boiler at the end thereof opposite to said hook member with thesaid arms extending vertically of the wall of the boiler upon oppositesides thereof, an axle journaled in the brackets, a drum carried by theaxle and arranged between the bracket plates, a crank formed on oneterminal of a ratchet disk carried by the axle, and a pawl pivoted toone of the bracket plates and engageable with the ratchet disk forholding the druin against movement in one direction.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARY A. LONG. EL. s.]

Witnesses:

Mrs. HENRY.W.JoHNsoN, FRED J. KROGI-I.

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